• jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 months ago

    Of course the power draw is an issue. There’s no 100% clean energy and our grid is still not 100% renewable. If we continue expanding the energy use in frivolous projects, we’re barely moving the needle. We want to do both, reduce energy use and clean up the grid.

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      8 months ago

      Whilst I don’t want to debate the energy usage here.

      How do we define frivolous projects? Some might think the LHC was frivolous but it had real world benefits.

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        8 months ago

        There is absolutely no stretch of the imagination that could define AI generated waifu masturbation fuel as anything but frivolous. Comparing that to the LHC, which has advanced our understanding of physics, is both insulting and deeply unserious.

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            8 months ago

            There is no future in which generating scantily clad anime waifus will be comparable to progressing our understanding of physics, even if you dance around it.

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        8 months ago

        It’s definitely a spectrum, with crypto sitting at one end and heating homes in the winter on the other.